HIKIND CALLS ON GERMANY TO PUSH FOR MURDER CHARGES AGAINST ALL NAZI WAR CRIMINALS IN U.S.

HIKIND CALLS ON GERMANY TO PUSH
FOR MURDER CHARGES AGAINST ALL NAZI WAR CRIMINALS IN U.S.

SEES
OPPORTUNITY TO BRING JUSTICE TO ALL NAZIS FOLLOWING GERMAN PROSECUTORS PURSUIT
OF MINNESOTA ‘COMMANDANT’

Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) is calling on Germany to pursue murder charges
against all Nazi War Criminals living illegally in the United States. The
Assemblyman’s request followed an announcement by German prosecutors that they
are recommending that former Nazi SS commander Michael Karoc—who is living
quietly and illegally in Minnesota—be charged with murder.

“This farce has gone on too long,” said Assemblyman Hikind. “These murderers
of innocent men, women have lived illegally in this country enjoying the
freedoms that they denied others. Why are they still here? Because of a
technicality that we can’t deport them because there’s no country that wants
them. But the current German government taking responsibility for these Nazis
murderers represents an historical opportunity to bring justice and let their
victims rest easier.”

This month, which marked the 75th anniversary of the tragedy of
Kristallnacht, Assemblyman Hikind launched a campaign to bring the remaining
Nazi war criminals in America to justice. Hikind vowed to pursue Nazi war
criminals that had been identified by the U.S. Justice Department data—Nazis who
had been ordered deported by the U.S. but had never left the country. The
Justice Department’s list included Vladas Zajanckauskas in Sutton,
Massachusetts; Theodor Szehinskyj in West Chester, Pennsylvania; John Kalymon
in Troy, Michigan; and Jakiw Palij in Queens, New York.

On November 10, Assemblyman Hikind led a group of more than 150 yeshiva
students and Holocaust survivors to Queens where they protested Palij’s
presencein the U.S. in front of the
Nazi’s home as Palij himself looked out of his window upon the crowd.
Assemblyman Hikind promised to return, and to travel to and lead similar
rallies in front of the homes of the other identified Nazis war criminals.

“We don’t want these murderers living
among us—among the descendants of the men, women and children they tortured,”
said the Assemblyman. “Their presence here mocks the memory of the tens of
thousands they collectively murdered. It is our obligation to remove this evil
from among us. And it is only just that today’s German government accept them
into Germany so these mass murderers can finally be prosecuted.”

Assemblyman Hikind
leads rally in front of the home of Nazi war criminal Jakiw Palij in Queens, NY
on Nov. 10. Photo courtesy of Shmuel Lenchersky/VIN News